George Bush, in 6.5 years, has created more dissension; lack of world prestige for the US than any prior President. The US National Debt has gone from 4.5 trillion dollars to the current 8.8 trillion and will probably approach 10 trillion by the time he leaves office. His deliberate administration lies on fabricated, manipulated intelligence fooled the general US populace into backing an illegal invasion of Iraq. Anywhere from 200K-650K dead Iraqi civilians; over 25k US casualties; 4 million plus displaced Iraqi civilians and the entire country's base infrastructure destroyed are chilling. US citizens have had their domestic phone calls logged onto NSA computers; been subjected to our courts being bypassed as warrantless searches, wiretaps were carried out; our press then attacked by this administration in revealing these & other transgressions. Bush speaking on democracy is akin to stating Stalin was the founder of the Free Press in Europe.
Rick, Dover, USA
In my opinion, in world politics the wind has changed.
Thanks to the behaviour of immigrants in the West, I think I am not the only one who looks to Putin’s leadership style with envious eyes.
If only we could have such strong leadership and healthy nationalism from Europe’s leaders, or even one European leader.
Demographically the West is on the brink of annihilation, all we seem to worry about is the icing on the cake, but soon there will be no cake.
Daniel 888, Melbourne, Australia
Stunning job of the pot calling the kettle black, probably the result of pressure from the old priesthood of intel flunkies who used to run the Western press, yet now cannot even keep up with the blogs. Old spies, get a job. The Wall's down now. Write novels or flip burgers. Yes, I'll take fries with that :>)
I don't know why Norway is not as threatening a natural gas provider as Russia is in everyone's minds, especially as they, not the Russians, control the pipelines to the coast, or are LNG carriers going to come to the UK out of Murmansk and Archangel? Not if Lloyd's and DNV have anything to do with it, which they do: insurance companies run the world, not governments.
If you don't think Putin has done better by his own people than Callaghan or Reagan, you've deliberately forgotten the millions of permanent jobs forever lost in the 1980's which are now all temp jobs in the USUK, if I may name them as one country. At least Russia stands up for its sovereignty.
Walt O'Brien, Binghamton, NY, USA
do you know, why the russian politics tend to draw so much attention lately?
because even western people start to remember some of the soviet union ways of propaganda. and if they don't, eastern european countries with their somewhat stupid russophobia try to make them remember.
the russian state policy, state-owned and controlled media, old soviet anthem, old soviet flag for victory flag, even the way russian statesmen are acting, all those little things are straight from soviet union book.
couple of years ago there was an article in some now-defunct small russian newspaper that said in farther corners of russia still a lot of people live that doesn't know that czarist russia doesn't exist any more.
about the gas problem. i tend to agree that russia is doing the right thing claiming back the gas fields. but i strongly disagree with how exactly it is done.
the cowboy capitalism in post-soviet states isn't a nice thing but it can be dealt with, it just takes some time.
martin, tallinn, estonia
Yes indeed, Russia is using it's resources in nationalist strategic manner. All that this adds up to underlining just how high our reliance on Mid-East, North African energy supplies are to our economy. However, Russia is playing a high risk game with the west, much it's own infrastructure powerstations/lines, roads, railways, and airports,plus communication installations are creaking old Soviet hardware. The kremlin is all too aware of the dilapidated state of these assets and the disastrous economic consequences should (when) they fail, Anatoly Chubais knew this which is why he has opened up the Russian Power industry to foreign investment, primarily because of low profit margins.
Yet this type of attitude is only going to leave Russia with fewer cards to play with in the future. At present rates 15% of the Russian population is predicted to contract AIDs in the next 10-15 years, of which cannot be solved without western knowledge. If they want to play tough then so should we.
Adam, London, UK
This shows why we must follow the French model - 90% nuclear, most of the rest renewable. Australia, Canada, even Kazakhstan are more reliable than the Middle East and Russia. Georgia, Ukraine, and now Estonia - all have turned west and all have suffered Russian meddling.
Ben, York,
sergey , what western publications are you reading
are you really saying that the west is willing togo to war
for gas ,how sad that you think that way .please reply
intrested reading.
george william taylor, hull, uk
"Control of 50% of oil and, in effect, all gas production now resides with the state.
Worse still ..."
- reading western press lately, I've got a feeling that a planned attack on Russia is on the way.
It would be just curious, if not so dangereous, to observe how general public is manipulated by the press.
This might be the beginning of the new fight for natural (energy) resources...
Sergey Dekalin, Moscow, Russian Federation
The end of the petro-chemical industries as a source of reliable energy has been well known from 1973. If this means nothing to you check your history books. The fact that we now face a problem from external energy sources is down to the stupidity and short sightedness of those that we, theoretically,allow to govern in our name.
mike, swansea,
The article is in a strange way very heartening. It signifies that not just the Russian economy but the Russian will to live is back. It means that they have learnt the great American lesson of democracy. What they initially thought was that democracy meant transferring the nation's wealth and income hitherto used to fund health, education and pensions to about 15 persons who did not even have the word "Russian" in the Nationality Line (Section 4) of their Soviet Union passport . They didn't like this outcome much since it reduced their GNP by 51% and the average life-span by 6 six years in as many years.They also learnt that these oligarchs went into media ownership in a big way, but decided that the goodies offered by the mind-controllers ie pop on tap, unrelenting advertising, reality TV etc wasn't sufficient compensation. Mr Steltzer shouldn't use the word "West" when he means American or precisely the Wall Street/media owners. As a Western man I know where my sympathies lie.
Marco Borg, London, United Kingdom
George Bush, in 6.5 years, has created more dissension; lack of world prestige for the US than any prior President. The US National Debt has gone from 4.5 trillion dollars to the current 8.8 trillion and will probably approach 10 trillion by the time he leaves office. His deliberate administration lies on fabricated, manipulated intelligence fooled the general US populace into backing an illegal invasion of Iraq. Anywhere from 200K-650K dead Iraqi civilians; over 25k US casualties; 4 million plus displaced Iraqi civilians and the entire country's base infrastructure destroyed are chilling. US citizens have had their domestic phone calls logged onto NSA computers; been subjected to our courts being bypassed as warrantless searches, wiretaps were carried out; our press then attacked by this administration in revealing these & other transgressions. Bush speaking on democracy is akin to stating Stalin was the founder of the Free Press in Europe.
Rick, Dover, USA
In my opinion, in world politics the wind has changed.
Thanks to the behaviour of immigrants in the West, I think I am not the only one who looks to Putin’s leadership style with envious eyes.
If only we could have such strong leadership and healthy nationalism from Europe’s leaders, or even one European leader.
Demographically the West is on the brink of annihilation, all we seem to worry about is the icing on the cake, but soon there will be no cake.
Daniel 888, Melbourne, Australia
Stunning job of the pot calling the kettle black, probably the result of pressure from the old priesthood of intel flunkies who used to run the Western press, yet now cannot even keep up with the blogs. Old spies, get a job. The Wall's down now. Write novels or flip burgers. Yes, I'll take fries with that :>)
I don't know why Norway is not as threatening a natural gas provider as Russia is in everyone's minds, especially as they, not the Russians, control the pipelines to the coast, or are LNG carriers going to come to the UK out of Murmansk and Archangel? Not if Lloyd's and DNV have anything to do with it, which they do: insurance companies run the world, not governments.
If you don't think Putin has done better by his own people than Callaghan or Reagan, you've deliberately forgotten the millions of permanent jobs forever lost in the 1980's which are now all temp jobs in the USUK, if I may name them as one country. At least Russia stands up for its sovereignty.
Walt O'Brien, Binghamton, NY, USA
do you know, why the russian politics tend to draw so much attention lately?
because even western people start to remember some of the soviet union ways of propaganda. and if they don't, eastern european countries with their somewhat stupid russophobia try to make them remember.
the russian state policy, state-owned and controlled media, old soviet anthem, old soviet flag for victory flag, even the way russian statesmen are acting, all those little things are straight from soviet union book.
couple of years ago there was an article in some now-defunct small russian newspaper that said in farther corners of russia still a lot of people live that doesn't know that czarist russia doesn't exist any more.
about the gas problem. i tend to agree that russia is doing the right thing claiming back the gas fields. but i strongly disagree with how exactly it is done.
the cowboy capitalism in post-soviet states isn't a nice thing but it can be dealt with, it just takes some time.
martin, tallinn, estonia
Yes indeed, Russia is using it's resources in nationalist strategic manner. All that this adds up to underlining just how high our reliance on Mid-East, North African energy supplies are to our economy. However, Russia is playing a high risk game with the west, much it's own infrastructure powerstations/lines, roads, railways, and airports,plus communication installations are creaking old Soviet hardware. The kremlin is all too aware of the dilapidated state of these assets and the disastrous economic consequences should (when) they fail, Anatoly Chubais knew this which is why he has opened up the Russian Power industry to foreign investment, primarily because of low profit margins.
Yet this type of attitude is only going to leave Russia with fewer cards to play with in the future. At present rates 15% of the Russian population is predicted to contract AIDs in the next 10-15 years, of which cannot be solved without western knowledge. If they want to play tough then so should we.
Adam, London, UK
This shows why we must follow the French model - 90% nuclear, most of the rest renewable. Australia, Canada, even Kazakhstan are more reliable than the Middle East and Russia. Georgia, Ukraine, and now Estonia - all have turned west and all have suffered Russian meddling.
Ben, York,
sergey , what western publications are you reading
are you really saying that the west is willing togo to war
for gas ,how sad that you think that way .please reply
intrested reading.
george william taylor, hull, uk
"Control of 50% of oil and, in effect, all gas production now resides with the state.
Worse still ..."
- reading western press lately, I've got a feeling that a planned attack on Russia is on the way.
It would be just curious, if not so dangereous, to observe how general public is manipulated by the press.
This might be the beginning of the new fight for natural (energy) resources...
Sergey Dekalin, Moscow, Russian Federation
The end of the petro-chemical industries as a source of reliable energy has been well known from 1973. If this means nothing to you check your history books. The fact that we now face a problem from external energy sources is down to the stupidity and short sightedness of those that we, theoretically,allow to govern in our name.
mike, swansea,
The article is in a strange way very heartening. It signifies that not just the Russian economy but the Russian will to live is back. It means that they have learnt the great American lesson of democracy. What they initially thought was that democracy meant transferring the nation's wealth and income hitherto used to fund health, education and pensions to about 15 persons who did not even have the word "Russian" in the Nationality Line (Section 4) of their Soviet Union passport . They didn't like this outcome much since it reduced their GNP by 51% and the average life-span by 6 six years in as many years.They also learnt that these oligarchs went into media ownership in a big way, but decided that the goodies offered by the mind-controllers ie pop on tap, unrelenting advertising, reality TV etc wasn't sufficient compensation. Mr Steltzer shouldn't use the word "West" when he means American or precisely the Wall Street/media owners. As a Western man I know where my sympathies lie.
Marco Borg, London, United Kingdom
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